Co-Founder Of HIV As Cause Of AIDS Mourns Loss On Flight MH17

Dr. Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of HIV Virus as the cause of Aids and current Director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

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Dr. Robert Gallo who co-discovered HIV as the cause of AIDS in 1984 says it is impossible to measure the loss to aids research from the downing of the Malaysian airliner.

The current Director of the Institute of Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine says a lot of the people on board Flight MH17 were experts in their field headed to the 20th International Aids Society meeting in Australia.

Dr. Gallo says that Dr. Joep Lange, who was confirmed as one of those on the flight, was a leader in the field who trained many of today's experts in aids research. Dr. Gallo worked with Dr. Lange over the years and Lange had visited the University of Maryland for yearly international AIDS meetings.